Storytelling Workshop
July 26 & 28, 2010
“To be a person is to have a story to tell.” - Isak Dinesen |
Ever wished you could tell a great story around the campfire, at a sleepover, on a car trip or while you’re babysitting? But what stories could you tell? And how? In Storytelling Workshop, you’ll learn how to get loose and have fun telling amazing stories! We’ll make up new story plots, tell old stories in new ways, and discover the tools to tell our own tales.
You’ll learn how to remember key parts of your story so that you can keep it moving along but also make it different every time you tell it! From body language and facial expressions to voice and emotion, you’ll learn how to make your audience remember your story for a long time to come.
Parents: Storytelling is an oral tradition that has been handed down in nearly all cultures and through many generations. For children and adults alike, its benefits are many. Storytelling stimulates the imagination and improves language skills such as vocabulary, prediction, comprehension, story structure and recall. It also helps children develop into better writers. By learning and telling stories, children discover history and culture, build connections to community, and develop public speaking skills. Perhaps most importantly, storytelling creates a love of reading and stories, and the confidence to share that love with others.
About the Instructor:
Rob Reid is a Senior Lecturer in UW-Eau Claire’s Foundations of Education Department and incorporates storytelling into all of his university classes. He has written ten books on children’s literature, all including elements of storytelling. Combining his theatre, literature and library background, Mr. Reid has been a professional storyteller for 28 years. Before coming to Wisconsin, he was a storytelling artist-inresidence for the Pueblo Colorado School District. He then served as a practicing children’s librarian for 14 years, telling stories to children nearly every day. Mr. Reid has told stories and conducted storytelling workshops in 40 of our 50 states and in Canada. He works with teachers and librarians all over North America, helping them bring literature to life through storytelling and other active teaching methods.
